Gibson Raffle

[jlb]

Just ran across this on the web: http://www.gibson.com/contests/montanacontestmay.html

A gibson raffle for a J-200. Thought you might like to let your guitar-pickin buddies know, and something tells me their may be one or two mando/guitar multi-intrumentalists on this board, as well.

[Km1000seth]

ooh, free guitars!!!!

[Tom C]

Scott was trying to make that happen a while ago but concerned about legal issues. I'd still like to see that happen for a master model. -And this looks like it's thru Gibson.

[John Zimm]

Dang, I'm there. I was playing a J-200 the other day at a local music store and fell in love with it. It was just about enough guitar to make me want to put down the mandolin for a couple of minutes a day.

-John.

[jlb]

I kind of assume it would be a bit harder for Gibson to do a raffle for a mando, because I can only imagine that OAI sells nowhere near as many mandos as Montana does guitars, plus I imagine also that building a mando is far less automated than a guitar.

But a raffle for an A-9 or something would probably be a good PR move for Gibson.

But is there a need to do so. Gibson Montana plays, at best, third fiddle behind Martin and Taylor in the flattop game, but Gibson OAI is probably the leader in terms of mando production, so do they have a real need to market their product via a raffle?

[Tom C]

"I kind of assume it would be a bit harder for Gibson to do a raffle for a mando, because I can only imagine that OAI sells nowhere near as many mandos as Montana does guitars, plus I imagine also that building a mando is far less automated than a guitar."
Whats that got to do with it?
120 raffle tix at $100 = $12,000 for Gibson
I would surely take a $100 chance at a MM OR
190 raffle tix at $100 = $19,000 for Gibson for Distressed MM
....Yumm